Terror Management Theory And Lifestyle

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The purpose of this article is to gain insight on the relationship between terror management theory and lifestyle alterations. This study focuses on the willingness and motivation of an individual to change or improve upon their nutritional habits following a reminder of their own death. More specifically, this article focuses on the existence of individual motivation to establish positive and healthy behavior.
This study was carried out with 128 individuals, all with dissimilar demographic variables (i.e. races, cultures, age, and religions). To these 128 individuals, researchers administered questionnaires prior to grocery shopping. These handouts contained a 12 true-false questions about either the fear of death or the fear of pain. Participants

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